Question

On my WordPress site, I’m using a plugin called “Vera Meta Boxes” that lets me add custom meta boxes to pages (not referring to custom post types).

So now every page has meta box that says, “Show on Home page” with a checkbox, that when selected has the value of “yes”.

Now on my homepage, I want to show the titles and featured image of any page that has “Show on Homepage” checked.

The vera meta box plugin says to use:

<?php get_post_custom_values('your_custom_field_key_here'); ?>

So I would use:

<?php get_post_custom_values('show_on_homepage'); ?>

But how do I do the rest? Conceptually, it would be something like:

LOOP Query Pages > if <?php get_post_custom_values('show_on_homepage'); ?> = yes show title and featured image and repeat loop until all pages with “show_on_homepage” are shown.

Answer 1

Well, I haven’t tested this, but according to the docs you should be able to use this query:

array('post_type'=>'page', 'meta_query' => array( array('key' => 'show_on_homepage') ) )

Note that meta_query is an array of arrays

This is 3.1 code, the 3.0 version should look like this:

array('post_type'=>'page', 'meta_key' => 'show_on_homepage')